Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 2 | Five cases or so remain , for which no explanation has been given . |
| 3 | This timing gives some idea of how long their travelling habitually took : still in a post-chaise , and allowing an hour , say , for breakfast , they required seven hours or so to travel a distance of about twenty-eight miles . |
| 4 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 5 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 6 | Situated on the same side of the lake as the Santon , the hotel Form is in the countryside about one mile ( 15 minutes or so walk ) from the lake . |
| 7 | Your Royal Highness , Ladies and Gentlemen my name 's Rod I normally masquerade as the Chief Racing Coach for the Royal Yachting Association but I 'm not here in that capacity this afternoon but the coordinator rather a grand title for the Year of Youth Sailing and I 've been asked to give you a short ten minutes or so briefing on where we 're up to with th this project this year erm I know there are many familiar faces around so I apologize to those of you that may know some of this information already . |
| 8 | Ten more minutes or so went by until she was ready for the net , one scoop followed by some frantic throwing in of excess tail which did n't want to go into the net and she was ours . |
| 9 | That well we 've seen some comic cuts things going in the last five minutes or so have n't we . |
| 10 | They will spend 20 minutes or so playing and exploring around their home before rambling off to their feeding grounds . |
| 11 | Not the sexually played-out kelt , nor a fish that has undergone an exhausting twenty minutes or so battling with a master angler . |
| 12 | Erm it 's a very , it 's always a good idea to do a plan , cos yeah , spend five minutes or so planning and jot down a rough plan and it might be that we would , we wo , we would normally ignore , ignore the plan when marking but if , you have n't finished a question and er , it 's a bit thin we might look at your plan to get some idea of what you would actually written |
| 13 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 14 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 15 | There might be three candidates or so left , bulling into clients . |
| 16 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 17 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 18 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 19 | But that 's cold comfort to the players who for the past two months or so have been attempting to qualify for the PGA European Tour . |
| 20 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |
| 21 | She stared into his eyes , those steady grey eyes that so fascinated her . |
| 22 | And as for Ronald Reagan , who among us can forget the words that so blew our minds on ‘ The Wit And Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan ’ album , a release which made Stiff 's Magic offshoot a legendary label overnight ? |
| 23 | The main problem faced by both of the pressure sensitive systems is that the weight of a hand pressing on another part of the surface can alter the resistive characteristics and so give false readings . |
| 24 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been involved in play-offs and so have Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | It is not unfair , then , to see the Webbs and the other early Fabians as they seem to have seen themselves : as philosopher-kings concerned to persuade people of sufficient education and standing to see Socialism through Fabian eyes and so to behold its full beauty . |
| 27 | Bertrams by their generous returns allowance also take away some of our worries and so give us more confidence in making subscriptions , which include Reed titles . |
| 28 | The health group started to challenge leading politicians from all the political parties and so called experts in the medical field , and it was one of the most frightening experiences of my life . |
| 29 | Ford placed enormous faith in its tiny Zig and Zag concept cars and so did GM with its Impact electric two-seater . |
| 30 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |